Deanne Eccles' practice begins with a question: what happens when we perceive before we interpret?

For more than three decades, her exploration of this question has moved across painting, colour, experimental theatre, Butoh and Body Weather. These disciplines have gradually converged into a phenomenological artistic methodology grounded in disciplined sensory attention and the relationship between body, artwork and environment.

Drawing on Goethean approaches to colour and her extensive movement research, Deanne developed Body Sense Perception and Response — a methodology for attending to sensory and bodily experience before interpretation takes over.

In the studio, this means allowing a painting to be discovered rather than entirely predetermined. Colour establishes relationships; gesture responds; form emerges through the process of making.

The resulting paintings are not intended to represent an idea or image, but to create the conditions for an encounter — between colour, perception, body and the unknown.